On 2020-11-18, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: > Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2020-11-17, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote: >> >>> I have discovered this problem which occurs on two different machines >>> with two different versions of Seamonkey - 2.53.3 and 2.53.5 - under >>> OpenSuse. >>> Given a mail with multiple attachments, "Save All" or "Detach All" >>> starts a process which takes 100% of one processor but does otherwise >>> nothing. >>> If I Quit Seamonkey the process remains. >>> If I kill the process instead of Quitting Seamonkey, Seamonkey dies >>> with the process. >>> Saving the attachments individually works. >>> >>> I repeated the test on my Windows 10 machine - with 2.53.4 - and there >>> were no problems there. >>> Is this a Seamonkey/Linux problem or a Seamonkey/OpenSuse problem? >> >> Do you know which file picker is SeaMonkey using? >> >> What is the value of the ui.allow_platform_file_picker setting? (You can >> check that, for example, in about:config.) >> >> (What is the separate process that gets started?) >> > > ui.allow_platform_file_picker was set to false, that feels a bit weird. > I have no idea what the separate process is, "top -i" simply > identifies it as seamonkey.
And is it really a separate process, and not the original seamonkey process? Could you please confirm this? > ok, setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker back to the default value is > as ugly as f*** but it works. Thank you very muchly. > > I don't know why I had changed the value but it was probably either > something I read here - and which will have applied to an older level > - > or (less likely) something which applied to Firefox. With that setting set to false, SeaMonkey uses the XUL file picker, which I can't use with directories / when saving multiple files (bug 1661070[1]), but I didn't see a separate process using 100% CPU (I'll check again). [1] http://bugzil.la/1661070 -- Nuno Silva _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
